These are really annoying when you go to recover data from a tar'd tape. Not realizing, you xvf the actual name, only to realize a an hour later, you didn't use the truncated 'real' name it's stored under the backup as!!
George > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Stevenson > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:05 PM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] More questions on indexing > > This cries for a ICONV / OCONV code: > > George Gallen wrote: > > In our case, we would also have to build a cross reference to all the > > 'F' VOC's whose actual filenames are different from their ID's, since > > we have a lot of longer filenames with truncated unix filenames. > > > > Or is there a system cross reference file already setup we could tap. > > > I wrote a "user-exit" style OCONV/ICONV that will convert unix > filenames to/from Universe names. > It's mostly to handle the slashes, backslashes, question marks, etc. > that are legal in UV but illegal UV. > Works for filenames and type-19 "item" ids. > > It could be made to handles longname/shortname (type-1 vs -19) > differences, too. > I avoid the hated archaic type-1, so just always use type-19 & > longnames > on.. > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
